英语词汇“houri”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

houri

释义

‖ houri|ˈhʊərɪ, ˈhaʊərɪ|
[a. F. houri (1654 in Hatz.-Darm.), a. Pers. ḥūrī, f. Arabic ḥūr pl. of ḥaurā' fem., in ḥūr-al-‭ﻋayūn (females) gazelle-like in the eyes, f. ḥawira to be black-eyed like a gazelle.]
A nymph of the Muslim Paradise. Hence applied allusively to a voluptuously beautiful woman.
1737Johnson Irene iv. v, Suspend thy passage to the seats of bliss, Nor wish for houries in Irene's arms.1745H. Walpole Lett. (1857) I. 343 (Stanf.) Handsomer than one of the houris.1816Byron Siege Cor. xii, Secure in paradise to be By Houris loved immortally.1820Scott Ivanhoe vii, What is she, Isaac? Thy wife or thy daughter, that Eastern houri that thou lockest under thy arm?1827Lytton Pelham I. (Stanf.), This speech somewhat softened the incensed Houri of Mr. Gordon's Paradise.

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